Mario I.

I come from a software development background and have been experimenting with the wk CLI and agentic workflows. I'm basically trying to achieve trunk-based development in Workato, where we create a short-lived branch from main for each change, work on it, test it and merge it back. What I'm missing is being able to run things locally. Normally, each developer can run and test their changes on their own machine without affecting the shared dev environment. We can branch the files in Git, but how do we run and test those changes separately in Workato? Is there any way to run Workato locally, or achieve something similar? I think I already know the answer, but curious to hear if anyone has found a good way of working with this, especially with coding agents.

Do you use lookups in your recipes like I do? Do you struggle to find what the values actually are? You know, opening lookup tables in a new tab, finding the right one, finding the right row, forgetting why you went there... 🤯 So I had Claude build me a little Chrome extension for it. Click the icon next to a lookup and it shows the current value, plus a “Last run” tab with what it actually was in the latest job. It’s very rough, and honestly it’d be nice if this was a feature in Workato itself. 👀 Anyone else solved this some other way, or have I just been suffering alone?